!Verify To start Verify, double click on the !Verify icon. The application starts immediately. Once you've started Verify, the desktop will disappear and be replaced by a blank screen with the following : Verify which drive ? You will need to identify which drive should be verified by entering the number of the drive you wish to verify. Your main drive is drive 4 and if fitted, your second drive is drive 5. Remember to press the enter key after typing the drive number. For example : Verify which drive ? 5 Verify will then start to verify the hard disc, this is indicated by : Verifying.. The verify process will take several minutes to complete. If there are no defects, Verify will report : Verifying.. 0 defects found Press SPACE or click mouse to continue Press the space bar or click a mouse button to return to the desktop. If there are defects, Verify will report the address of the defect, the output will look like this : Verifying.. 00000000008BF800: Disc error 13 at :5/00000000008BF800 000000000398D800: Disc error 13 at :5/000000000398D800 already mapped out 00000000051FC000: Disc error 13 at :5/00000000051FC000 3 defects found Press SPACE or click mouse to continue NOTE: You will need to record the disc address of defects that have not been mapped out before pressing the space bar or click a mouse button to return to the desktop. You do not need to include the leading zeros (i.e. 8BF800 rather than 00000000008BF800). In this example, the defect at &398D800 does not need to be mapped out because this defect had been mapped out previously. The other defects should be mapped out using the *DEFECT command for each defect. Removing Disc Defects --------------------- The Appendix "Removing a disc defect" has more information on mapping out defects. A brief summary follows. From the desktop press F12, a star appears bottom left of the screen. In this example, the following should be entered to map out the defects : *DEFECT :5 8BF800 *DEFECT :5 51FC000 where the :5 is the drive number and the other number is the address of the defect. Press the Return key to return to the desktop. Defects on Conner CFS541A, CFS1081A and CFS1621A Disc Drives ------------------------------------------------------------ Desktop Verify and *Verify will incorrectly report addresses of defects on some disc drives including the Conner drives above. Defects addresses when attempting to access a file will be reported correctly. The utility !Verify in the Diversions.Tools directory can be used instead of *Verify or Desktop Verify and the addresses reported will be correct on both the above Conner drives and other drives shipped by Acorn. For Advanced Users Only ----------------------- With most hard disc drives the *Verify command, makes several attempts to read a potentially defective sector. Each failed attempt is indicated by a "?". After several failed attempts the sector is reported as a defect. With the drives listed above and possibly other drives, *Verify will only report the error once (i.e. with only one "?"). The address that both *Verify and the desktop Verify menu option report are incorrect. The incorrect addresses are &200 too high. Thus if *Verify or the desktop Verify reports a defect at address DiscAddress you should map it out with : *Defect For Example Result from *Verify Verifying... 00123400 ? Required *DEFECT command *DEFECT :4 123200